@Maggie ... we teach each other, we reach out to each other, we beseech each other... and along our bumbling journey we each find a path to something other, something new...
A breaking of lifelong patterns... a gradual awakening, gathering in pace, revealing inner challenges and wonders... valleys and peaks to explore, mental compass in hand, spinning wildly at first, but settling in general directions that eventually become clearer...
Oh my... I do love life so very much... a simple idea has the power to profoundly change a life, sometimes in mere instants...
For decades I was dumb... then I finally reached my pain threshold and started smarting up...
And everyone here is a big part of that... by sharing our experiences, our thoughts and feelings, our dreams and fears and hopes, our challenges and failures and triumphs, our strengths and vulnerabilities; we become greater ourselves, and help others to become greater too...
I'm a big fan of that... hurting humans helping each other and themselves, seeking each other out for solace and kindness and a shared experience of pain, and the seeds of empathy and compassion sprout and grow...
This is the power of words, of writing... it connects the isolated with each other... a herd together is stronger... we look out for each other... we know how it feels to suffer and survive, even thrive... and then dive again, only to once again survive...
Much love and respect to the community... together we are stronger...
